[7]-2/7 “Freedom” and “Equality”

🚀 Freedom or Equality—pick your poison.
What does it really mean to chase freedom? To demand equality? History shows us neither comes free—and the price is always human.

The raw emotions behind humanity’s two favorite ideals---
・ Freedom: the dangerous urge that pushed us “Out of Africa.”
・ Equality: the jealous spark that toppled kings and thrones.

Together, they’ve built civilizations—and torn them down. Can they ever coexist, or are they doomed to eternal tug-of-war?

👉 Famous phrases & their sources
・“Out of Africa” — Humanity’s first jailbreak, circa 70,000 years ago.
・“Equality of opportunity” — The fair starting line we never quite agree on.
・“Equality of outcome” — The finish line that’s even harder to share.
・“Utopia” — Thomas More’s nowhere land that somehow became everyone’s dream.
・“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” — Marx’s utopia in one neat slogan.
・“War of all against all” — Hobbes’s grim picture of freedom without brakes.
・“Divine Right of Kings” — When reason worked overtime to justify power.
・“Enlightened Despot” — Oxymoron of the Enlightenment: kings who preached equality.
・“Universal Human Rights” — Reason’s bold promise, still under construction.
・“Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité” — France’s most famous trio… where brotherhood got lost in translation.
・“Solitaire and solidaire look almost the same” — Albert Camus’s sly reminder that loneliness and solidarity often wear the same mask.
・“invisible hand” — Adam Smith’s famous metaphor (1776), meant for markets, now blamed or praised for everything from booms to busts. The ghostly CEO who never clocks in.

Closer: Freedom and equality: forever roommates, forever fighting over the thermostat.

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